Select the correct answer. What is ironic about this excerpt from "Poetry" by Marianne Moore? Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine.

The purpose of a persuasive essay is to convince the audience that writer’s assertion is indeed valid or true.

Ibelieve this is the part where ulysses reveals his true identity to his faithful servants eumaeus and philaetius: his ragged vest then drawn aside disclosed the sign conspicuous, and the scar exposed: eager they view'd, with joy they stood amazed with tearful eyes o'er all their master gazed: these servants know ulysses by the scar he got when he was a child - so when he showed them the mark, they immediately knew this is truly their master and they hugged him, finally starting to believe his words.